Haitian On Earthquake Quotes & Sayings

He looks like Darth Vader sounds like him too
Right and he member what happens he turns into a good guy at the end.
Only after he blows up a whole planet and kills a lot of people. — Rick Yancey

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts ... — John Dos Passos

With so many people in the world that long for someone to love and care for, why is it those who couldn't care less are those who are blessed? — Danielle Ackley-McPhail

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. — Paul Farmer

They said something funny. They said, 'Even God leaves on the last boat from Nome.' What does that mean? — Marcus Sedgwick

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label. — Sean Parker

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up. — Max Beesley

televangelist Pat Robertson took to the world's airwaves and tried to suggest that the earthquake was God's vengeance for the Haitian Revolution, alleging that the slaves had sold their souls to Satan at Bwa Kayiman in return for the power to overthrow their masters. — Mambo Chita Tann

My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages. — Jenkin Lloyd Jones

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake. — William J. Clinton

Young professionals seeking cities to live and work in, and a wave of immigrants in inner-city neighborhoods and inner suburbs that eventually produced second-generation college graduates who moved into the center city to live and work. These groups joined the gays and artists who have always chosen to live in urban communities.12 Edward Glaeser points out that not all cities have succeeded in the past generation - and he points to Detroit, Michigan, and Leipzig, Germany, as examples. But most cities have found the power to reinvent themselves, argues Glaeser, because the essence of what makes a city a city is the bringing of people together to innovate. At one level, this means bringing together the most highly trained and talented people, the "elites." Yet at another level, it means bringing together the most energetic, ambitious, and risk-taking people from among the — Timothy Keller

Life is hard already. Why make it harder? — Sara Shepard

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God. — Mark Buchanan

To me, the greatest joy is creation. — Nancy-Gay Rotstein